It is aimed at inspiring grassroot innovation and to harness local talent with participants from across the country - students, entrepreneurs or any solution maker. The participants are being invited to build products or solutions that could accelerate India's digitisation and commercially develop their prototypes on Intel architecture.

Ashish Nanda, the director of IIMA says, \"The Union Budget identifies education as one of the key pillars on which its transformation agenda is built. The budget offers support to education in three dimensions.\"

The institute's admissions process has two stages: the Common Admission Test (CAT), followed by Written Analysis and Personal Interview (WA-PI) of shortlisted candidates. Minimum cut-offs for CAT-scores are applied to generate the list of candidates eligible for the WA-PI.

In a noble initiative, all 524 graduating students of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A) have decided to collect a monthly amount of Rs 200 to build a corpus to the tune of Rs 14 lakh and offer scholarship to the next generation of IIMA students.

Samir Barua, Director of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad from November 2007 till August this year and credited with introducing numerous reforms at the institute, discusses his tenure and the state of affairs at the IIMs with Shamni Pande in an email interview.

The Business Today-Nielsen Best B-schools survey gets sharper and much more comprehensive this year. We present a turbo-charged ranking of more than 200 of the country's top business education institutes. How and why we raised the bar, and what we found.